Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal, two Cuban bodyguards rushed him down the gangplank into a waiting automobile. Canadian police formed around him, escorted him at breakneck speed to the Mount Royal Hotel. Safe in the suite which General Italo Balbo occupied two months ago, he told newshawks : "We have with us barely sufficient pocket money to meet our traveling expenses. All my property, real and otherwise, is in Cuba and I have no money in any bank outside of Cuba...
...crowd of 325,000, in boats and grandstands on the banks of the St. Clair River near Marine City, Mich., when the mishap came so early last week. Just before the race, Horace E. Dodge decided to enter his three- year-old Delphine V, rebuilt for a speed of 85 m.p.h., to help Gar Wood's Miss America X, which has gone 124 m.p.h., defend the Cup against this year's British challenger, Hubert Scott-Paine's Miss Britain III. Fifteen minutes before the start, which had been postponed for three hours because of rough water...
...Powered with one Napier-Schneider Cup 1,375-h. p. engine, against the four 1 ,650-h. p. Packard motors in Gar Wood's 38½-ft. Miss America X, the 24½-ft. duralumin-hulled challenger was well known to be much slower, even if her maximum speed was 100 m.p.h., as re- ported. Her chance was to beat Miss America X on the turns, which Hubert Scott-Paine expected to make at full speed while Miss America X was laboriously slowing down and regaining speed. The water was smooth when the boats roared out across the start...
...Budget Director Douglas who was instructed to keep regular 1935 government costs below $2,500,000,000. A third caller was Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England, escorted by Governor Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Last week Britain ceased pegging the pound. ¶To speed up his National Recovery Program President Roosevelt directed R. F. C. Chairman Jesse Jones to plan a temporary extension of Federal credit through the banks to NRA members to tide them over the period between increased overhead and increased income. Chairman Jones hustled back to Washington to work...
...horsemen know that racehorses are sometimes drugged with laudanum before a dishonest race to make them sleepy and slow, with heroin or cocaine to speed them up. They call the last race at some tracks the "drugstore race" because some of the horses are certain to have been drugged. Once dosed, a horse needs repeated doses to be any good at all. But few realized the extent of U. S. horse doping until last month when U. S. narcotic agents arrested a gang of horsemen at Arlington Park, near Chicago, for illegal possession and transportation of narcotics, claimed proof that...